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The Earl of Pembroke
Sidney Herbert, 16th Earl of Pembroke and his wife, Mary
Reign1960–69
PredecessorReginald Herbert
SuccessorHenry Herbert
Spouse(s)Lady Mary Dorothea Hope
Issue2
FatherReginald Herbert, 15th Earl of Pembroke
MotherBeatrice Eleanor Paget
OccupationComptroller and Private Secretary to the Duchess of Kent

Sidney Herbert, 16th Earl of Pembroke, 13th Earl of Montgomery CVO (9 January 1906 – 16 March 1969) was a British peer.

Life and career

Herbert was the son of Reginald Herbert, 15th Earl of Pembroke and Beatrice Eleanor Paget (of the marquesses of Anglesey). His ancestor, the 11th Earl of Pembroke, married Countess Catherine Vorontsov, the daughter of a prominent aristocratic Russian family.

Pembroke was educated at Eton and Pembroke College, Oxford. He served in World War II in the Royal Artillery. He was Comptroller and Private Secretary to the Duchess of Kent, 1942–1948, as well as Equerry to the Duke of Kent. He was a Trustee of the National Gallery, 1942–1949 and 1953–1960; Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, 1944–1958; Member of the Historical Manuscripts Commission, 1941–1958. President of Historic Churches Trust. Justice of the Peace, 1954. Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire, 1954–1969, and an alderman of Wiltshire County Council, 1954–1967.

On 27 July 1936 he married Lady Mary Dorothea Hope, daughter of the late John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow and the Dowager Marchioness of Linlithgow. The couple had two children: Lady Diana Mary Herbert (19 April 1937 – 24 November 2008) and Henry George Charles Herbert (19 May 1939 – 7 October 2003). He was succeeded by his son.

References

  1. Royal Genealogical Data page
  2. Lundy, Darryl. Sidney Charles Herbert, 16th Earl of Pembroke, Thepeerage.com, accessed 23 May 2012
  3. Woronzow, HumphrysFamilyTree, accessed 4 April 2012. Catherine's father, Count Semyon Vorontsov, the Russian ambassador to Britain, brought the family to London in 1785.
  4. PEMBROKE, 16th Earl of, in Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edition by Oxford University Press, December 2007, accessed 26 September 2009
Honorary titles
Preceded byThe Duke of Somerset Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire
1954–1969 		Succeeded byThe Lord Margadale
Peerage of England
Preceded byReginald Herbert Earl of Pembroke
Earl of Montgomery
1960–1969 		Succeeded byHenry Herbert


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